Music alters Willy's reality. Audience members are aware that music is a precursor to Willy's flashbacks. The boundaries of the Loman Brooklyn home have no meaning once the flute tune is heard. Another Brechtian epic feature is fragmentation which the flute music creates in a realistic manner. Music transports us without warning. Willy's "ticket to ride" into the past is a tune created by his absentee father.

The whistling (Biff/Willy in elevators, etc.) could also be commented upon to garner support for music's contribution to Brechtian's epic features in Death of a Salesman.